 It is often confused with the Château de Sales that was formerly its neighbour of a few hundred metres; Sales was destroyed on the order of king Louis XIII in 1630.Since the liberation of France at the end of World War II, the castle has sometimes incorrectly been called Château de Thorens-Glières, based on the current name of the commune, but it has always rightly been just "de Thorens".At the exit of the village of Thorens-Glières, on the road of the famous plateau of Glières, the castle appears in proud silhouette in a beautiful mountainous setting.